I repeat: Life's too short to waste on doing work you really don't want to do.
Brain rot is a valid term. We waste so many of our little grey cells on the minutiae that is the bread and butter of cubicle critters who can't see daylight within a five minute stroll of their cubicle.
I don't miss the land development business, not one little bit.
I did enjoy land development and still do when I can get it. When it was a regular activity, I had an entire bookcase with copies of all the different subdivision ordinances, standard forms and other necessary data from communities with active subdivision development around Fort Worth and Dallas. Nowadays most of the information is online and/or saved to my hard drive.
This is where you charge appropriately for what you need to do.
Sure you have all the data already. But you don't have a plat. I charge over 2 times as much as a survey would cost for a filed plat. And that price is when I already have the survey.
I charge so much bc A) it's a filed document. B) the beurocratic bull$#/+ and C) I know they will need a revision or two and as long as nothing changes as far as what the plat is doing, I include the minor modifications requested by said beurocrats.
Then everyone's happy. They get their plat and I get a lot of money.
